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I do not know at all that pushed me to go see "The Road" to the movies the other night. My girlfriend wanted to see a "nice movie, for once you leave." With an obstinacy But that does not like me, I managed to convince her that John Hillcoat's film, adapted from a novel by Cormac McCarthy that I had not read but that was all with the prestige of a Pulitzer Prize, was the best deal of the evening. ...
I was wrong.
The story is an absolute darkness: in a dead world, completely gray, cold and rainy a father and son of a decade trying to move towards a hypothetical South to find the sea animals disappeared, the vegetation too, there are only a few ruins covered with a thin film of gray ash and few stray humans become rapists and cannibals.
There is of course no hope. The father and son emaciated, ill and in rags wandering, driving before them on a road became marshy, a supermarket trolley loaded with blankets months and stagnant water. They hide as they can in the car frame, shed in ruins or under tree stumps. Sometimes, with luck, they found a can of Coke or a can ... With bad luck, they find that the savagery of the survivors.
Throughout this hell, the father never stopped to explain to his son they are "good guy ", the" good guys "... they" carry the fire "... And that" other ", most are nothing more than predators. The shadow of suicide, as permanent temptation, hovers over their heads.
The central question of this story is that of the nature of man. Basically, "The Road" tells us starve, the despair and you will quickly have a pet. ... Maybe ...
But maybe not ... I spent the night sleeping badly, turning over in my mind the recent disaster, which have nothing to do with the end of the world of Cormac McCarthy, but are disasters nevertheless, in good and due form.
"The Road" has nothing to do with Haiti. Haiti has nothing to do with Liege. Cork has nothing to do with Hal ...
But still. ... Any such disasters, their scale, the extent of their tragedy, are still indicative of human nature.
And what we see in these disasters, the end is always emotion, a lot of solidarity, courage ...
What it sees in these disasters, behind the sadness and the tragedy is finally some hope about human nature.
The only thing really sad is having to wait for a disaster arrives that proved the courage and solidarity ... And in the meantime
, human nature, it is rather like an abandoned house: empty and cold.